ISIS has already been feeling the wrath of hacker collective Anonymous, and more recently, some Pentagon-backed hacking. But speaking to the New York Times, the Obama administration has declared it’s going to start “dropping cyberbombs.” Wait, what?
The Times piece is a wide-ranging look at how the Obama administration is trying to ramp up its use of covert weapons, particularly cyberwarfare, against ISIS. That the Pentagon is attacking ISIS online isn’t news—that much was already known—but there’s more details on the scale and scope of the attacks.
